"Ring Fit Adventure: Get fit with the Nintendo Switch
13.9.2019
Translation: machine translated
Nintendo's latest game combines fun with fitness. "Ring Fit Adventure" contains a stretchy ring that transfers your strength and movements into the game. This is not the first time Nintendo has ventured into a fitness experiment.
Nintendo shows its wonderfully weird side again. After the cardboard toy Labo, the next curious experiment follows with "Ring Fit Adventure". A game with a motion control add-on for the Switch. The set contains the Ring-Con, a stretchy plastic ring and a leg strap. You insert a Joy-Con into each to control the game. How you hold the ring or how firmly you press it is detected by the Joy-Con sensors and transmitted to the game. The same applies to the leg strap.
The announcement comes as little surprise if you think back to the Balance Board for the Wii. The fitness accessory has sold over 30 million units. So it's understandable that Nintendo is trying to repeat its success.
Get fit through play
"Ring Fit Adventure" combines fitness exercises with an adventure game. In one of the levels shown, for example, you run up a flight of stairs while simultaneously beating opponents left and right out of the way. To do this, you jog in place in your living room while swinging the ring around you. The accessories are inspired by real fitness equipment, so the exercises are also mostly classic workouts. "Ring Fit Adventure" offers several game modes and intensity levels so that both adults and children can have fun.
The game will be released on 18 October for the Nintendo Switch.
Philipp Rüegg
Senior Editor
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